Enviro: Something’s fishy about the way Larry Craig can still harm salmon

Larry Craig may or may not be on the way out of the Senate, but he has left an anti-salmon stink bomb enshrined in the budget Congress is about to pass, an environmentalist points out in today’s P-I.

Larry Craig

Dan Ritzman, Northwest/Alaska director of the Sierra Club, focused on Section 127 of S1696, the Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008, which would overturn a federal court ruling. Ritzman argues:

For more than 15 years, Larry Craig has enabled the government’s bad behavior on salmon recovery. Since 2001, he has actively helped the Bush administration implement its policy of illegally ignoring, evading and twisting the Endangered Species Act so that salmon will not be saved. What’s done is done — but there’s no reason to give him one more whack at our salmon in absentia.